{"id":804,"date":"2017-12-11T23:00:49","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T22:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kinoteatrbluboks.com\/?post_type=portfolio&p=804"},"modified":"2019-01-23T22:04:25","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T21:04:25","slug":"batty-islands-wyspy-pomylone-a-rock-opera","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.kinoteatrbluboks.com\/index.php\/en\/portfolio\/batty-islands-wyspy-pomylone-a-rock-opera\/","title":{"rendered":"BATTY ISLANDS \u2013 a rock opera"},"content":{"rendered":"
BATTY ISLAND \u2013 A ROCK OPERA<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Author: Katarzyna Wi\u0144ska
\nProducer: Tomasz Wi\u0144ski
\n<\/b>Music: Polski Jad: Jan Ma\u0142kowski, Dominik Mokrzewski, Agata Wi\u0144ska<\/h6>\n

A theater experiment with children and adults from different cultural and social environments: the Masurian countryside, a Warsaw middle school, a center for the visually impaired, an orphanage, and a therapy center.<\/p>\n

Independent work with these groups has been underway since 2011. Once a year we show the fruits of their collaboration on stage; in 2012, sixteen children from Dziubiele village performed in Warsaw with child participants from the Home for Small Children and teachers from the middle school. In 2013 visually impaired children joined Batty Island<\/i>. In the spring of 2014 we showed the Rock Opera with fifteen \u201eslow head\u201d adults at the Open Door Foundation. Like their predecessors in this project, the actors brought their ideas to the performance.<\/p>\n

Batty Island<\/i> is a morality tale of sorts, whose underlying idea is: it is easier to hate than to understand. This is a tale of a meeting between children and adults from the city and the country on vacation many years ago, of encounters, choices, and experiences, of relationships with peers and adults. Addressing hot issues like adoption, conformism, broken families, and disability, the protagonists of this rock opera distance themselves from formulaic opinions, mock the superficiality of good-will projects, paternalistic activists, and an unreflective adherence to ideologies. The participation of people from the Open Door Center supplied a pretext for creating caricatures of prevailing and harmful stereotypes or views of OTHERS.<\/p>\n

The name of the theater, BLUBOKS, is a polonized version of \u201cblue box\u201d \u2013 a film technique whereby the (originally blue or green) background is swapped for another image and the actors can be situated in whatever computer-generated environment one pleases.<\/p>\n

Bluboks Theater uses the name of the film technique in a figurative way; it places the actors in a society, environment, situation, or experience that is entirely unfamiliar or off limits to them. In this new \u201cscenery\u201d the viewers see the actors in a new light. Whereas before they were treated with disdain or contempt, now they are admired for their originality, their sense of humor, their ability to adapt etc. All the things we would never have expected of them.<\/p>\n

Katarzyna Wi\u0144ska<\/p>\n

A ROCK OPERA \u2013 BATTY ISLAND
\n<\/b>Author: Katarzyna Wi\u0144ska
\n<\/b><\/p>\n

SONG I<\/p>\n

\u201cPlaying Twenty Questions\u201d<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. 1. What has long, protruding bristles? \u2013 A backswimmer? \u2013 No.<\/li>\n
  2. 2. What has transparent wings with black veins? – The goat moth? – No.<\/li>\n
  3. 3. A blackish-brown abdomen\u2026. – The hoverfly? \u2013 Yes.<\/li>\n
  4. 4. Stripes on the back\u2026 – The water boatman, maybe? \u2013 No.<\/li>\n
  5. 5. What has striped abdominal segments?- The dusky cockroach! \u2013 Yes.<\/li>\n
  6. 6. Whose wind pipe is like a long tail\u2026 – The leaf beetle? \u2013 No.<\/li>\n
  7. 7. Brown at the shaft\u2026 Is it a tiger beetle? \u2013 No.<\/li>\n
  8. 8. It climbs on a tree and sings\u2026The long-horned beetle \u2013 Ergates Faber? \u2013<\/li>\n
  9. 9. Whose googly eyes often give people the shivers\u2026- I know: the deer fly!<\/li>\n
  10. 10. It dips its long tongue in nectar\u2026 – I don\u2019t know\u2026<\/li>\n
  11. 11. Its gills pump water two ways\u2026- The fairyfly. – That\u2019s right.<\/li>\n
  12. 12. Its lips are like sponges for absorbing liquids\u2026 – The birch sawfly? \u2013 No.<\/li>\n
  13. 13. Its ears hang down below its knees\u2026- Donacia brevicornis? \u2013 No.<\/li>\n
  14. 14. Wings that are shiny blue on the surface are found on? \u2013 The morning-glory plume moth! \u2013 Yes.<\/li>\n
  15. 15. What has black wings with a fancy red rim? – The bee fly? \u2013 No.<\/li>\n
  16. 16. It nibbles on rumex\u2026- The black arches! \u2013 Yes.<\/li>\n
  17. 17. It has dull red legs\u2026- The inland floodwater mosquito? – I\u2019m afraid not.<\/li>\n
  18. 18. It has a ribbed dorsal\u2026 – The oil beetle\u2026 \u2013 No.<\/li>\n
  19. 19. The back wings have a spot on the edge of the? – Braconidae! – Correct!<\/li>\n
  20. 20. (last question) What has furcula under its small abdomen? – The Collembola! \u2013 Bravo! Yes!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    SONG 2<\/p>\n

    \u201cTHE QUARREL\u201d<\/p>\n

    MAMA: (cries) \/PAPA: (answers)
    \n<\/strong><\/span>Larder beetle \/<\/span>Raspberry crazy ant
    \n<\/strong><\/span>Weevil\u00a0\/<\/span>Trumpet pitcher
    \n<\/span><\/strong>European mole cricket \/Fungus gnat
    \n<\/span><\/strong>Blue death-feigning beetle \/Stink bug
    \n<\/strong><\/span>Long-tongued bat \/Vinegar fly
    \n<\/span><\/strong>Common clubtail\u00a0\/\u00a0Blow fly
    \n<\/span><\/strong>Poplar-and-willow borer \/Tarnished plant bug
    \n<\/strong><\/span>European rhinoceros beetle \/Cardinal beetle
    \n<\/strong><\/span>Bacillus ferment \/Crane fly
    \n<\/strong><\/span>Spotted longhorn \/Stag beetle
    \n<\/strong><\/span>Boll weevil \/<\/span>Spittle bug
    \n<\/strong><\/span>Puss moth catepillar\u00a0\/Brown squash bug
    \n<\/strong><\/span>Devil\u2019s coach horse \/Snakefly
    \n<\/strong><\/span>Assassin bug \/Mealy bug destroyer
    \n<\/strong><\/span>King worm \/Russian leather beetle
    \n<\/strong><\/span>Twisted wing parasite \/Pleasing fungus beetle
    \n<\/strong><\/span>Tumblebug \/<\/span>Mischievous bird grasshopper
    \n<\/strong><\/span>Augochlora sweat bee \/<\/span>St. Andrew\u2019s cotton stainer
    \n<\/strong><\/span>Twice-stabbed lady beetle\u00a0\/<\/span>Hickory horned devil
    \n<\/strong><\/span>Pseudapion\/Black garden ant
    \n<\/strong><\/span>(unisono) : Vampire moth, Rough woodlouse, Wandering spider Saucer bug
    \nGiant weta, Square-legged camel cricket, Blow fly!!!<\/p>\n

    SONG 3<\/p>\n

    \u201cHONEYMOON\u201d<\/p>\n

    Mother:\u00a0 <\/span>My dear: Curculio, Notarini, Rhamphini, Tomicini, Titanus giganteus, Tibellus, Euroleon, Eumerus, Jumping plant louse, Hollyhock weevil, Bibio, Meteorus, Hummingbird hawk moth, True bug, Midge.<\/p>\n

    Father:\u00a0 <\/span>My sweet: Stenurella, Smaragdina, Soronia grisea, Cicindela, Coccinella, Chryzolina, Drusilla, Hailara, Rosalia, Mieigenia, Smaragdina, Stenurella.<\/p>\n

    SONG 4<\/p>\n

    \u201cBOMBYLIUS SUPERBUG\u201d<\/p>\n

    He\u2019s buff and large and his back is shaggy he wakes and climbs on six legs eyeballs on long antennae and huge ears behind every knee he chomps he soars look at him go. He crouches flat on the ground on fences in fields in scruff any old place he never flips or stumbles. He won\u2019t pupate he won\u2019t strip trees bare and he digests on the outside \u2013 and all around the world.<\/p>\n

    Refrain: This ain\u2019t no advertising \u2013 we\u2019re not just whistling Dixie. He\u2019s born with all this stuff \u2013\u00a0it\u2019s all so weird and simple.<\/p>\n

    BOMBYLIUS SUPERFLIER
    \nBOMBYLIUS SUPERBUG<\/p>\n

    He\u2019s got a pointy face with a proboscis he makes a racket in the scrappy bushes and the undergrowth and his legs are long
    \nHe\u2019s got short furry ragged segmented wings, they\u2019re solid membraned leathery when he hears something rustle
    \nHis legs dangle on the ground or he throws himself and waits till a fly comes along at the end
    \nOf May on the thorn of a blackberry bush at the edge of a clearing in a cellar he warms up in the litter unless he\u2019s running
    \nUp an aspen on cold days no perennials and conks for him he\u2019s too busy sipping nectar from the buttercups his back thighs swell a bit<\/p>\n

    Refrain<\/p>\n

    At the turn of March and April he sits in the elm sap he buzzes he whistles he clicks with his throat
    \nHe tilts and closes his wing coverts he bumbles in the bushes for three minutes his feelers seeking warmth
    \nHe beds down he dries his thin hair he smooths his scruffy pendants and palps he gives steam from
    \nGills through spiracles in early June he sails a puddle using his breathing siphon
    \nHe drifts with his body he\u2019s got a skimpy wing cover he barely shields his stylet he feeds at noon at the edges of the pear on the tissue and skin his micro-mini-mandibles crush grind bite into vegetable crops<\/p>\n

    Refrain<\/p>\n

    In evening in August they press their spongy lips to the cowpiles and suck at will macrotrichia
    \nUnder the brow he also wets his clypeus at night he\u2019s sulfur-yellow flat and armored though he\u2019s sometimes thicker<\/p>\n

    Or thinner he flattens his body to fit through narrow cracks under crumbling bark or railway tracks
    \nIn the cracks in a sidewalk in a ditch a growth on his sclerite and urticating hairs on his leg segments
    \nIt bristles it gives a gamey stench from its glands when darkness falls it can be anything
    \nHe\u2019s a pollen-eater root-eater needle-eater flower-eater leaf-eater and sometimes he builds a cocoon
    \nHis rough stick-legs dig him into dunes by the roadside a few times in his life<\/p>\n

    Refrain<\/p>\n

    In winter a dull glitter is a frequent sight he doesn\u2019t stroll he doesn\u2019t glide he doesn\u2019t crouch
    \nHe bores with a claw he gnaws he damages the railroads his legs are very sticky
    \nIn the dark and dusty corners he neglects his hygiene he wouldn\u2019t sneeze at some dew drainwater melted snow
    \nIn the dried twisted humulus leaves in the nettles in the new moon and the full moon the little guy suddenly gets up and most of his dorsal slides out his calves and feet and his mandibles glisten
    \nHe demonstrates sexual dimorphism he folds his wings flatwise on his abdomen with a thin ovipositor<\/p>\n

    Refrain<\/p>\n

    SONG 5<\/p>\n

    \u201cSURVIVAL ON CUCULIA\u201d<\/p>\n

    Refrain:<\/p>\n

    Cuculia \u2013 it ain\u2019t no jungle
    \nCuculia \u2013 it ain\u2019t no desert
    \nIt\u2019s Entometropolia
    \nMegavulgaris Pseudolycilla<\/p>\n

    Entoman won\u2019t go extinct
    \nIf he emigrates and keeps evolving
    \nHe has to adapt or his health\u2019s in trouble
    \nHe\u2019s in a fight for his life \u2013 it\u2019s all right if he keeps from flying
    \nBut when he takes off, he\u2019s got to keep out of sight
    \nAnd out of earshot, no one must mistake him for
    \nEntoman of Lunaria; he comes closest to resembling
    \na conventional pupa or a concealing cocoon
    \nwhen net-winged insects were all the rage, a camouflaged cockroach
    \nthis year he\u2019s orange, and next year, orange-and-black.<\/p>\n

    Refrain:<\/p>\n

    He\u2019s got to run with the swarm, in circles, not zigzags
    \nNo acrobatics or deft maneuvers of his own
    \nOr he\u2019ll be the butt of all the jokes like a visitor from Bohunk Lunaria
    \nHe shouldn\u2019t cool off so far from the warm enclaves;
    \nThe flower pots, ovens, jars, behind the wardrobes and in the terraria,
    \nThough he bores his ommatidia into the pane and the stuffiness makes him swoon\u2026.<\/p>\n

    Refrain<\/p>\n

    When his fur coat doesn\u2019t cover his body
    \nIn the winter he hibernates curled up tight
    \nHe saves on food, on drink, on flying,
    \nIn the summer he never stretches out on the hot asphalt
    \nWhich sucks the moisture from him, like the spongy lips of a fly
    \nWhen it comes to water \u2013 it\u2019s no picnic
    \nDrinking it from puddles on the street, so he bores holes in the park
    \nBut when they\u2019re full, and the silt sinks to the bottom
    \nHe slurps the water carefully, the fresh rainwater is good
    \nBut it has to be sweetened, it\u2019s bland and lukewarm, and….<\/p>\n

    Refrain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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